Wilbur Tseng and Alfredo
Gotay dominated the field in the 2010 Victor Palciauskas Tournament
10P03. Sharing only the draw between the two of them, Tseng and
Gotay shut out the rest of the field to finish with 5 ½- ½.

Tseng is a medical
researcher in Chicago and the winner of the 2008 Electronic Knights . Gotay is
a professional photographer from Puerto Rico.NIMZOINDIAN DEFENSE
(E13)

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3
Bb4 4.Nf3 b6 5.Bg5

This treatment of the
Nimzoindian utilizing rapid development was played by such OTB players as
Alekhine, Botvinnik, Tal, Spassky, and Kasparov, among others.

5...Bb7 6.e3 Bxc3+

Black parts with this
Bishop in order to exploit the doubled c-Pawns, but this plan never
materializes. In hindsight then, better may be 6...h6 and ...00.

35...Qe6 36.Qg3+ Qg6
37.Qc7 Qe6 38.Rf3This is what Tseng had
in mind with 35. Bd4 -- the forced advance of the f-Pawn leaves Black's King
with precious little dignity. 38...f6 39.Re3 Qf7
40.Rg3+ Kf8 41.c4And even now Tseng is
reluctant to trade that strong Bishop for an inactive Knight.41...Re1+ 42.Kh2 Re7
43.Rh3 Qg644.Bxb6

The Bishop finally
captures the b6 Pawn when Black's pieces are all at a defensive posture.

44...Ne5!?One last try --Black
seeks counterplay against the White King.

OBITUARY:Stephen Swanson of Smyrna, Georgia, an Expert
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HOW STRONG ARE WORLD CHAMPION CCPLAYERS ?

Recent statistics
published on RedHotPawn.com by Jerry Honn in a discussion of computer cheating
also revealed an interesting comparison between correspondence World Champions
and World OTB Champions. Using the "Top 3" match of comparing the player's
choice of moves - that is, was the move played by the human in the Top 3
choices of Fritz 11? - it was determined that in the Alekhine-Capablanca match
of 1927, Alekhine's moves matched Fritz 80% of the time, that is, Alekhine's
move was either Fritz's first, second, or third choice 4 out of 5
times. Capablanca produced a Top 3 agreement 82 % of the
time. In the Fischer-Spassky match of 1972, Fischer brought home an
86% Top 3 agreement. Spassky produced an 80%
pairing. Finally the article looked at Kramnik-Topalov 2006 where
Kramnik scored 83.5 % and Topalov 80.5%. By these limited statistics I can
project that OTB World Champions agree with Fritz's top three choices 80% or
more of the time.

The article went on to
look at some correspondence World Champions in the pre-computer era. Jacob
Estrin (in 9 games) from 1972-1975 scored 82%. Runner-up Josef Boey
produced agreement 84% of the time. In 1978-1981, World
Champion Victor Palciauskas scored 82%

While runner-up Juan
Morgado made an 84% result.

It would appear from the
statistics that the best of OTB play are equal to the best at CC.

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